should I call each "posted" var...

ukndoit

I am very new to PHP, I was taking a tutorial, and I learned this code, but I am afraid I don't understand it like I thought I did.

while(list($key,$val)=each($_REQUEST)){
	$$key = stripslashes( $val );
}

I was under the impression that that made each variable work as they are named, for instance,

Then $cook would equal "Cornbread".

However, It is not working.

When I was doing a bunch of different things in a test.php file, It worked without me having to do that. But now that I added functions to the file, it is not working at all, unless I put
$_POST['cook']

That works. Do I have to use $_POST[''] on every one of them?
Some of them are using GET instead of POST.

That could get very annoying.

Any ideas on what I need to do different?

LordShryku

Try using extract()

ukndoit

Yeah, I seen the post you showed that to some one else.

I did it like in that page,
extract($_POST);
but it does not work. 🙁

$cook as the example I used, still does not have a value, even though it is posted with a value in the name="cook" field.

Now I have it post like this:

if ($_POST['cook']) {
	$cook = $_POST['cook'];
} elseif($_GET['cook']) {
	$cook = $_GET['cook'];
} else {
	$cook = "";
}

That still does not work, maybe I must declare them as global?
since I'm actually calling them in a function?

Does PHP have a way to call variables as global, like use vars qw($cook);

LordShryku

Take a look at this post. Three or four different ways to do this there. If you just want to declare everything as globals, turn register_globals on in your ini file.